Safety Leadership
(Instructor-Led Training and Train the Trainer Workshop)
Client/Employer: Barton Malow
Audience: Barton Malow field leaders
Project Role: Instructional Designer & Developer, Project Manager
Design/Authoring/Delivery Tools: PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite
Project Goals: This in-person, instructor-led course is designed to prepare and equip field leaders to be effective safety leaders who are committed to being proactive, accountable, and focused on better safety outcomes on projects. The course is delivered in five modules, delivered over the course of six hours, and limited to 12-15 team members per session to encourage discussion. The course covers key elements of the Barton Malow safety program, safety leadership expectations, building essential safety leadership skills, and assessing one’s own safety leadership capabilities in order to create an action plan for further development.
Design & Development Process: The safety team originally only wanted consultation on utilizing external resources to meet this need. After discussing their goals, I provided recommendations for creating a custom course that made use of some of the external resource material. In doing so, we could better meet the goals of the safety team. I led collaborative design meetings with a variety of internal stakeholders, where we worked through a course outline, storyboard, and instructor-led training material review sessions. Once all materials were developed and reviewed, we conducted a pilot session with prospective learners, where we gather feedback to inform revisions prior to rolling out enterprise-wide.
Revision Note: After about a year, I assisted the safety team in analyzing the evaluation feedback from learners and gathering additional feedback from facilitators in order to make enhancements to the course. I provided instructional design and project management for version 2 of the course, which included a review of course content, comprehensive feedback review, revisions, and a pilot of revised materials.
Storyboard
When drafting storyboards, I utilize all information gathered from kickoff meetings and initial discovery discussions with stakeholders, including reference materials provided to-date in order to draft a visual blueprint for the course. This storyboard also serves as a communication tool for collaborative design meetings, allowing me to walk stakeholders through the process of outlining text and brainstorming or reviewing multimedia and learner interaction ideas.
This course utilizes lecture, discussion, self-reflection, activities, video, illustration, examples, practice, and guided notes to encourage engagement, hold attention, and cement learning. Audience participation is an expectation. Each of the activities was intentionally selected to add to and enhance the overall learning experience of each team member. They are simple but very effective.
A sample set of pages from the storyboard for this project are included below.
Instructor-Led Training
Slide Deck
The content for this slide deck has a consistent flow of learning. Each module begins with either an activity or story to gain attention and establish relevance. It then moves it a blend of lecture, discussion, and activities, wrapping up with a lesson summary and Q+A. Key aspects of this slide deck design included module title slides with progress indicators to orient facilitators and learners to where they were in the course, clean and simple content slides, discussion and activity slides that used consistent styles and included visual icon cues throughout to orient facilitators and learners to places were there was an activity to do or notes to write down in the participant guide. At the end of the course, learners are encouraged to review their completed self-assessment and develop an action plan with steps they would take in the next few months to further develop their skills as a safety leader.
Participant Guide
The participant guide was not intended to be a slide-for-slide reference, but rather a guided note taking tool to aid learning. It includes focused material for future reference, a self-assessment, action plan guide, and a page of relevant resources. Facilitators are instructed to provide a printed copy for each learner.
A sample set of pages from the participant guide for this course is included below.
Instructor Guide
The instructor guide includes a course description, target audience details, materials needed to facilitate the course, course overview, facilitation guidance, lesson scripts, points of emphasis, discussion callouts, activity callouts and directions, as well as lesson transition language.
A sample set of pages from the instructor guide for this course is included below.
Train-the-Trainer Workshop
Slide Deck
The train-the-trainer workshop was designed using the watch one, do one, teach one model. Facilitators are expected to take the course, focusing on participation, not prepping to facilitate. Then they participate in the train-the-trainer workshop which walks them through the components and structure of the course, but also includes helping them lean in to their strengths by getting to know their presentation style, and best practices for facilitation. This strategies implemented in this workshop were intended to level up facilitators’ skills and provide a consistent experience for all learners.
Participant Guide
The participant guide was not intended to be a slide-for-slide reference, but rather a guided note taking tool to aid learning. It includes focused material for future reference, next steps, additional learning opportunities, a facilitator practice checklist, and a facilitator feedback form.